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Cindy Murray has been working at Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s location No. 1985 in Laurel, Maryland, for 13 years. She’s stationed in the fitting rooms and earns $12.40 an hour.
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Tyree Johnson scrubs himself with a bar of soap in a McDonald’s bathroom and puts on fresh deodorant. He stashes his toiletries in a Kenneth Cole bag, a gift from his mother who works the counter at Macy’s, and hops on an El train. His destination: another McDonald’s.
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After vowing to open more than 1,000 stores selling fresh fruit and vegetables in underserved urban neighborhoods, or “food deserts,” grocers have opened a fraction of them, putting in jeopardy Michelle Obama’s effort to improve food choices for low-income Americans.
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A resentment of organized labor, driven in part by its growing reliance on government jobs, is hurting unions at the ballot box.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. ’s divide-and- conquer strategy prevailed in Chicago by pitting construction workers against employees who will stock shelves and ring registers.
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Companies would have less time and opportunity to block unions under a proposed U.S. rule that would speed voting in labor elections.
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The National Labor Relations Board withdrew its complaint against Boeing Co. over the opening of a 787 Dreamliner plant in South Carolina, ending a case that exacerbated business-government tensions.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the largest private employer in the U.S., plans to stop paying staff there an additional $1 an hour for working Sundays, taking a bite out of its single biggest expense.
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Michelle Obama returned to her hometown yesterday to implore mayors across the U.S. to follow the lead of Chicago, which has shrunk the size of its so-called food deserts, where families can’t easily buy healthy foods.
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Union efforts to recruit workers at U.S. fast-food restaurants were set back yesterday as Minneapolis employees at Jimmy John’s sandwich shops rejected a bid to affiliate with organized labor.
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